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Custom Benchgraft

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Bench grafting is where a piece of scionwood is grafted onto a rootstock to grow a new tree.   The scionwood dictates the variety of fruit.  The rootstock dictates the size, hardiness, vigor, and disease resistance of the tree.  Apple scions must be grafted onto apple rootstock, pear scions onto pear rootstock, and plum scions onto stone rootstock.

There are many different methods of bench grafting, but the whip and tongue is a good one with high success rates.   Basically, we whip and tongue graft a piece of scionwood that has 2-3 buds on it (usually 2-3 inches) onto a rootstock of your choice.  Before grafting onto the rootstock, it is cut down to 6 inches above the top root which usually ends up with a 12 inch rootstock.  The resulting benchgraft is roughly 14-15 inches long.

  • Jewett Red Custom Benchgraft

    Jewett Red Custom Benchgraft

    A crimson apple with red stripes and yellow specks. A fine-textured, yellow fleshed dessert apple. This flesh is tender, juicy, and fragrant with a nut-like flavor.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Jonadel Custom Benchgraft

    Jonadel Custom Benchgraft

    A cross of Jonathan and Delicious. A large red apple with a sweet-tart flavor. More disease resistant than Jonathan. Good keeper.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Jonafree Custom Benchgraft

    Jonafree Custom Benchgraft

    An improved version of Jonathan. A medium sized red apple with crisp, juicy yellow flesh. Much more disease resistant than Jonathan.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Jonalicious Custom Benchgraft

    Jonalicious Custom Benchgraft

    Medium tending to large. Round and often lopsided. The smooth skin has a yellow base colour which is washed with bright red and marked with light coloured lenticels. Tough skinned. The flesh is yellowish, crisp and firm, tender. Juicy, sweet, mild...

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Jonamac Custom Benchgraft

    Jonamac Custom Benchgraft

    Medium size, firm fruit with 90% dark red color over greenish background. Flesh firm, crisp, high quality with flavor similar to McIntosh.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Jonathan Custom Benchgraft

    Jonathan Custom Benchgraft

    Moderate grower, bears young. Fruit medium, highly colored in sunny climates, striped red in cooler climates. Skin thin and tough; flesh fine, juicy. Flavor sprightly subacid. One of the best dessert and pie apples. Ours is the original, not the redder...

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Joyce Custom Benchgraft

    Joyce Custom Benchgraft

    A cross between McIntosh and Lowland Raspberry. A medium sized apple with yellow skin with red stripes. Flesh is white, soft, and juicy with a sweet, subacid flavor. Hints of raspberry flavor. Very hardy.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Jubilee Custom Benchgraft

    Jubilee Custom Benchgraft

    A cross of McIntosh and Grimes Golden. A medium sized, red apple. Flesh is cream colored, crisp and juicy with a sweet-tart flavor.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • July Red Custom Benchgraft

    July Red Custom Benchgraft

    Very attractive, large, red fruit. Strongly scented with vinous or loganberry flavor; sweet, soft, juicy, white flesh. Tree moderately vigorous.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • July Tart Custom Benchgraft

    July Tart Custom Benchgraft

    The apple is described as a "summer Granny Smith type"and is both a good eating and cooking apple. Fruit is medium or smaller, conical-shaped, with light-green skin which ripens to pale yellow. The white flesh is firm, fine-flavored, briskly tart, and...

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Junaluska Custom Benchgraft

    Junaluska Custom Benchgraft

    A large apple with yellow skin and russet patches and a pink blush. Flesh is tender, juicy, and yellow with a subacid flavor.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Jupiter Custom Benchgraft

    Jupiter Custom Benchgraft

    Cross between Cox Orange Pippin and Starkling Delicious. More flavorful than Cox Orange Pippin and more disease resistant. Sets heavy crops. Triploid.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Kandil Sinap Custom Benchgraft

    Kandil Sinap Custom Benchgraft

    This Turkish aristocrat is tall, narrow and cylindrical with a creamy yellow porcelain-like skin blushed a brilliant red. Crisp, juicy, fine-grained flesh with good flavor. Dwarfish tree grows in narrow, pyramidal form. Shy bearer.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Kaneb Sweet Custom Benchgraft

    Kaneb Sweet Custom Benchgraft

    A cross of Tolman Sweet and Yellow Transparent. A small to medium size, yellow apple. Flesh is juicy and sweet. Good keeper and hardy.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Karmijn de Sonnaville Custom Benchgraft

    Karmijn de Sonnaville Custom Benchgraft

    Rich robust flavor with masses of sugar and acidity and crisp juicy flesh. One of the strongest-flavored apples comparable to Ashmeads Kernel. Apples red or with red flush and larger than either parent. Flowers are large and beautiful. Susceptible to...

    $15.00
    Out of stock